Beauty and the Beast Jr. Creative

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Director
David Lee
David Lee has served as the Producing Artistic Director at Avenue Arts since the conception of the theatre company in 2017. He has had the pleasure of working with a diverse group of actors including youngsters as the Director of the Young Actors’ Workshop each Fall and Spring. Some of his favorite directorial endeavors include “August: Osage County”, “Cry It Out”, “Next to Normal”, as well as many Young Actors’ Workshop productions, including “Shrek Jr.”, “Willy Wonka, Jr.”, “Annie, Jr.”, and “Seussical, Jr.” David also understands the importance in the development of new works and has formed a company of actors called “Underground” that performs staged readings of new works. David is a Canton native and attended Malone University where he was trained in the Michael Chekhov Technique of acting and received a B.A. in Communication, Visual and Performing Arts.
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Musical Director
Jared Sparks
Jared Sparks has been involved in the Northeast Ohio theatre community in an array of capacities since he was a young child. Jared has performed in over 50 stage productions throughout five different counties as well as worked behind the scenes in Stage Management, Properties Design, Lighting Design, Directing and Musical Directing. Some of Jared’s favorite stage credits include Flowers For Algernon (Charlie Gordon), Hairspray (IQ), Leading Ladies (Butch Myers), and Two By Two (Japheth). Jared has also been privileged enough to direct copious amounts of talented artists in productions such as “The Laramie Project”, “The Last Five Years”, “Bent” and “The Rocky Horror Show”. Jared would like to thank everyone for the continued support of growing the arts in the community.
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Choreographer
Cait McNeal
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Stage Manager
Ginette Jaramillo
Ginette Jaramillo found her love of theatre back home in Santa Fe, NM when she began acting for Bible Alive Theater. Over the years she has done just about every role- acted, directed, props master, ran tech; and most recently been stage managing with various theatre companies across the country. After graduating from Malone University where she was honored to be a part of a traveling theatre troupe, she is currently an intervention specialist for the Stark County Educational Services Center. Through Avenue Arts Jr. productions she is able to bring her two favorite things together: theatre and teaching!
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Assistant Stage Manager
Deanna Egan
Deanna Egan has been involved in theatre since 2016. She started her training at age 10 by participating in acting classes at Avenue Arts. Since then she has performed in several Stark County productions including Seussical Jr. (Mayzie La Bird), Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Beth Bradley), High School Musical Jr. (Mrs. Darbus) and Charlotte’s Web (Fern Arable). In February 2022, she performed at the National Performing Arts Festival with the Broadway Bound Company in “The Road Home”. Deanna won an Outstanding Individual Performance Award for Acting and Dancing in a group performance. This opportunity with Avenue Arts is very special because this is where she fell in love with theatre and she is very excited to be a part of the creative team!
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Technical Director
Linda Alexander-Radak
Linda Alexander-Radak has been serving as Avenue Arts’ Technical Director since shortly after the conception of the theatre company in 2017. Although, Linda’s set-building and design projects date back to the days when the Kathleen Howland Theatre was housed in Second April Galleries. Linda is an extraordinary artist with an array of talents that do not go unnoticed through her dedication and persistence to keep the arts alive through Avenue Arts. Linda considers herself a “chickenista” - having over 40 egg-laying chickens. She would like to thank her husband, George, who supports every hair-brained idea that she comes up with and even helps make them happen.
Costume Designer
Michele McNeal
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Production Assistant
Sloan Kyler
Sloan Kyler is excited to be returning to Avenue Arts to assist with this production. Her last project with the company was the staged reading of "American Son" this past winter. She has missed working with youth musical theatre and is thrilled to be back!
Production Intern
Donnie Dillard

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